Now I disagree that cops are somehow more crooked than they used to be. You won't see me stick up for cops very often, but people have ALWAYS been crooked. They aren't more crooked now than they used to be.
In fact, cops are probably more respectful of people's rights now than they used to be. Some of them only do it because they have to if they want to secure a conviction, but some police do have a great deal of respect for staying within their constitutional limitations.
And cops have to deal with a ton of fucking assholes. I mean really, who is ever nice to cops when they get pulled over or when the cops ask them what they are doing? I know one of the reasons I have never gotten a ticket and just warnings was because I didn't act like a douche to the cops.
Now one time they did search my car for marijuana, but that is a different story. I'm smart enough to not drive with anything, so I was more than happy to let him search the car because I didn't get a ticket. And he was totally nice about it. Took a minute or two.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
